William Michael Rossetti recounts:
I read [Emerson] eagerly and with great admiration: and I think I can say that nothing ever exercised a more determining effect on my character than the essay “Self-Reliance.” I was then very young - say barely 18 - and in that state of feeling when I was liable to be biased either . . . towards self-reliance or towards deference to the authority of my betters. (Quoted from The Life of the Creative Spirit, p. 271.)
To read Emerson’s essay “Self-Reliance,” click here.
For a brief biography of William Michael Rossetti, click here.
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